The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-12
For her my cares shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend.
hcr my tolls and cares be given
III tolls aud cares shall end.

1 For her my cares shall fall.
For her my prayers ascend,
| her my tolls and cares be given
III tolls aud cares shall end.
.ACK IN CHRIsTs ADVANCEMENT.
"Periumed smoke" says Solomon, In the
words following my text. Not like the fumes
| coughed up from the throat OF a steam-plpe,
or poisoned with the gases OF chemical facto-
| ries, or floating In black wrath from the con-
migration OF homesteads, or sulphurous from
blazing batteries, but sweet Ms a burning
grove OF cinnamon or jungle OF sassafras, or
the odors OF temple censor "Who Is this
| that cometh out Of the wilderness like pillars
| OF smoke, periumed with myrrh and frank
incenseF' Hear 1t, men and women every
where, that the advance OF the genuine
church OF Christ means peace for all nations.
Victor Hugo, In his book entitled "Ninety-
three" says: Nothing calmer than smoke,
but nothing more starting. There are peace
ful smokes and there are evil ones, The thick
ness and color of line OF smoke make the
| whole difference between war and peace, be-
tween fraternity and hatred. The whole hap
piness OF nan or his complete misery Is some
times expressed in this thin yapor which the
wind scatters at WILL The great Frenchman
was right, but go further aud say that "a
the kingdom Of God advances like pillars OF
smoke the black volumes beching from bat
teries of war and pouring out from port holes
| OF ships will vanish from the sky.
a distinguished gentleman OF the late war
told me recently that Abraham Lincoln pro-
| posed to avoid our civil conflict by purchase OF
all the slaves of the south and setting them
! free lie calculated what would be reason
able price for them, and when the number Of
millions Of dollars that would be required for
such n purpose was announced, the proposition
was secuted. aud the north would not have
made the offer and the south would not have
accepted II If made But" said my military
friend. 1.-THE war went on and Just the number
nf mill al fhat Ar | ,alp
lated would have been enough 10 make rea-
sonable purchase of all the slaves, were spent
in war, besides all the precious lives that were
hurled away In the 30 battles In other
words, there ought TO he some other way for
men to settle their controversies wltholt
Wholesale butchery.
Az ARBlTER FOR ALL NATIONS.
The church OF God will yet become the arbl-
ter OF nations. II the world would allow II, II
could to-day step in between Germany and
France and settle the trouble about Alsace
and Lorraine, and between Russia and Bulga-
ria, and between England aud her antagon-
lists, and between all other nations that are
flying at each Others threats, and command
peace and disband armies, and harness for
the pillow the war horses now being hitched to
ammunition wagons, or saddled Tor cavalry
charge That time must come or through
the increased facility for shooting men aud
blowing up cities and whemlng hosts 10 in-
slant death, so that we can Kill regiment
easier than we could once kill company and
kill brigade easier than we could once kill
regiment, the patent offices OF the world more
busy than ever In recognizing new englnery
of destruction, the human race Will after
awhile 90 fighting with one arm and hobbllng
with one foot and stumbling along with one
eve and some ingenious inventor, inspired OF
the archangel Of all mischief, will conrive
machine that will bore Il hole to the earth's
centre, and some desperate nation will throw
into that hole enough dynamite 10 blow this
hulk Of planet into fragments dropping like
meteorlc stones on surrounding stellar habi-
tations.
But this shall not he. for whatever else | let
20, hang on to my Bible, which tells me that
the blacksmth's shop shall vat come to It's
grandest use when the warrior and the hus'
bandman shall enter II SIDE by side, and the
soldier shall throw into his bank OF fires his
sword, aud the farmer shall pick II up a
ploughsare, and the stralghtest spear shall
be bent into u crook at each emu and then cut
in two, and what was one spear shall be two
pruning forks. Down with Moloch and up
with Christ. Let no more war horses eat out
OF the manger where Jesus was born.
Peace Forever roll off the sky the black
pillars OF smoke from the Marcngos and sala
mancas and Borodinos and Sedans and Get
tysburgs of earth. Aud right after them, roll
into the heavens the peaceful yapors from the
chlmneys OF farni houses and asylums and
churches and capitals Of Christian nations,
and, az the sunlight strks through these va
pors they will write In letters Of jet and gold
all over the sky from horizon TO zenith:
''Glory to God In the highest. and on earth
peace, good will TO menu Then let all the
men-ofwsr fire a brosdside, and all the forts
thunder forth a resembling volley, aud the
earth be girdled with the cannonade over the
final victory OF the truth.
THE GOOD WORK JUST BEGUN.
While thinking OF these things ! looked
out from my window and the wind was
violently blowing And | saw from many
chimncys the smoke tossed In the air and
whirled with great velocity, volume after
volume fold after fold, and carried on the
swift wind were the great pillars OF smoke.
And helped By Solomon In the text ] saw The
speed Of the church symbolzed. Do you real
lie the momentum the church OF God Is un-
dcri Why the smoke Of chimney on the
top of Mount Washington when the wind is
blowing sixty miles an shour is slow as COM
pared with the celebrity Of good influences.
For ffty-ninc centuries the devil had i his
own way among the nations Nearly all the
great missionary movements have been start-T
ed within the century, and see what one
century has done to recover the world from
fifty-nine centuries Of devastation. What
great revlvalsl What mighty churches What
saved millions What advancing civilization
In all the United States, Great Britain, Ire
land, France, Germany, Italy. full freedom to
worship God according To conscience Along
the coasts OF China, Japan and Africa the
batteries are planted which are TO take all
these empires for God aud civilization. From
the ruins OF Babylon and Assyria and Nineyeh
and the valleys OF the Nile combinations have |
been exhausted proving to all fair-minded men !
that the Bible Is the truest book ever
written The mythologcs Of Egypt were
found to have embodied In them the knowl. |
edge of mans expulsion from paradise, and
the sacrifice OF 4 great emancipation, Moses |
account OF the creation corroborated by the